abstractbackground: there are relatively rich uranium mines in regions of saghand and bafgh in yazd province. this survey was carried out to provide a map of ambient gamma radiation of yazd province and the probable effects of the existence of these mines on background radiation dose rates.materials and methods: the measurements of the outdoor and indoor–environmental exposures (including cosmi...

the dependence of the lateral distribution of cherenkov light in simulated extensive air showers to the energy and the mass of the primary cosmic rays has been studied. it has been shown that a previous claim about mass independent proportionality of shower energy to the total cherenkov photon number is not valid in energies below eeas ~ 1014 ev. we have found that the core distance of the so c...

Dielectronic recombination (DR) and radiative recombination (RR) data for carbon-like ions forming nitrogen-like ions have been calculated as part of the assembly of a level-resolved DR and RR database necessary for modelling of dynamic finite-density plasmas (Badnell et al. 2003). Total DR and RR rate coefficients are presented and the results discussed for N to Zn24+, as well as Kr30+, Mo36+,...

In this era of precision cosmology, a detailed physical understanding on the evolution of cosmic baryons is required. Cosmic magnetic fields, though still poorly understood, may represent an important component in the global cosmic energy flow that affects the baryon dynamics. We have developed an Eulerianbased cosmological magnetohydrodynamics code (CosmoMHD) with modern shock capturing scheme...

Let us start our considerations here from the cosmic era of baryonelectron (or proton-electron) recombination. In standard cosmology it is usually assumed that at the cosmic recombination era photons and matter, meaning electrons and protons, in this phase of the cosmic evolution, are dynamically and physically tightly bound to each other and undergo strong mutual interactions via Coulomb colli...

Following the completion of cosmic reionization, the mean-free-path of ionizing photons was set by a population of Ly-limit absorbers. As the mean-free-path steadily grew, the intensity of the ionizing background also grew, thus lowering the residual neutral fraction of hydrogen in ionization equilibrium throughout the diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM). Lyα photons provide a sensitive probe fo...

We describe the “deflationary” evolution from an initial de Sitter phase to a subsequent Friedmann-Lemâıtre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) period as a specific non-equilibrium configuration of a self-interacting gas. The transition dynamics corresponds to a conformal, timelike symmetry of an “optical” metric, characterized by a refraction index of the cosmic medium which continously decreases from a v...

Both the canonical and microcanonical ensembles are utilized to study the thermodynamic and evaporation properties of a closed black cosmic string whose spacetime is asymptotically anti deSitter. There are similarities and differences to the Schwarzschild-anti deSitter and 2+1 BTZ black hole solutions. It is found that there exist regimes of black string/thermal radiation equilibrium as well as...

We present a review of two thermal duality symmetries between two different kinds of systems: photons and cosmic string loops, and macro black holes and micro black holes, respectively. It also follows a third joint duality symmetry amongst them through thermal equilibrium and stability between macro black holes and photon gas, and micro black holes and string loop gas, respectively. The possib...